UK’s tuberculosis crisis deepens as doctors report rise in prison cases

2025/08/11 by Kate Bowie · 1 voice
Health Professions · Medicine · #Healthcare Systems and Challenges #Child and Adolescent Health #Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare

paper · doi:10.1136/bmj.r1709

openalex publication_date 2025/08/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15

Abstract

Amid spiralling rates of TB in prisons, the UK looks set to lose its WHO low incidence rate. <b>Kate Bowie</b> reports

Citations

• Tuberculosis in the UK

Discussions

• Maybe before you make comments like that you should know what you are talking about! You should also know that the UK is not in any better shape! doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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